Let me put this very simply: this is a dishonest procedure. This is a ruse to avoid a straight up-or-down vote on the Senate bill and the 2-month extension. Why not hold a straight vote, as indeed called for under regular order? That's the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. My friends, we've seen this movie before. House Republicans, once again, are driving our government and our economy to the edge of the cliff, and this time they've placed 160 million workers and 48…

Mr. Speaker, it is with great sadness that I rise to pay tribute to the passing of a man whose legacy to San Francisco is a great one. I rise to pay tribute to the life and legacy of Warren Hellman, a community leader, a San Francisco…

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. I thank her for her leadership and fighting the good fight at the Rules Committee. I commend her for her patience and also for her great knowledge that she brings to this debate. But this is a pretty…

I think somehow I made a mistake. I came over here to listen to the debate, and it's almost like ``Alice in Wonderland,'' like we all fell down the hole here--up is down, down is up, black is white, white is black. I mean, this is…

I want to thank the gentleman for yielding and for his leadership. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the political games that the Republicans continue to play. We know that an extension of unemployment insurance is one of the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I just wanted to say, perhaps the gentleman was confused about which bill I was talking about. I was talking about the Senate compromise, which 39 Senators voted for, which the President supported, which…

Mr. Speaker, we are here today because the Senate did a terrible thing in the eyes of the House majority: they had the audacity to work together and come up with a compromise. At the request of the Speaker of the House, the Senate majority…

Mr. Speaker, this has been a terrible year in Congress. The intransigence of the Republican leadership and the Tea Party Republicans has brought us to the brink of crisis again and again. And now we're playing another game of chicken with…

Mr. President, I wish to comment on two specific issues regarding the conference report to H.R. 2055, the omnibus spending measure before us. First, I am pleased that the conference report includes $22 million for the Facility for Rare…

Mr. President, once again, the Senate finds itself in an untenable situation. We can approve the legislation before us, which is inadequate to the needs of our Nation, or we can reject this legislation and make matters even worse. I will…

Let me thank the gentleman for yielding and also thank our chairman and ranking member and subcommittee chairs, really, for bringing together a bipartisan bill to the floor. But I cannot support the bill because, once again, poor and…

Mr. Speaker, let me thank Congresswoman Slaughter, the gentlelady from New York, for her leadership and for yielding. This is not the open and transparent process the Republicans have promised the American people. Instead, we have had a…

Thank you. In this bill, we should have focused on creating these ladders of opportunity, removing barriers and helping to reignite the American Dream for all Americans. Instead, we're scoring, I believe, political points on the backs of…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 1892, the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY12. As the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis, and…

Mr. President, I rise to introduce the Los Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise Relief Act of 2011, which is cosponsored by Senator Boxer. This legislation is very simple. It directs the Federal Aviation Administration to develop and…

Mr. Speaker, on Friday, December 16, 2011, I was absent during rollcall vote No. 939 in order to attend an important event in my district. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on Senate Amendment to H.R. 1892--Intelligence…

Mr. Speaker, on Friday, December 16, 2011, I was absent during rollcall vote No. 943 in order to attend an important event in my district. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on H.R. 3672--Disaster Relief Appropriations Act…